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Trump to sign executive order renaming Pentagon the Department of War
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Friday that will change the name of the Defense Department to the Department of War, a White House official told CNN.It’s a move that the president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have previewed in recent days, including Trump in the Oval Office last week when he told reporters his administration was going to “change the name.”“We call it the Department of Defense, but between us, I think we’re gonna change the name,” the president told reporters on August 25.“We won the World War 1, World War 2 — it was called the Department of War, and to me, that’s really what it is. Defense is a part of that, but I have a feeling we’re gonna be changing.”The news about Friday’s order was first...
September 05, 2025

Trump to sign executive order renaming Pentagon the Department of War

Marco Rubio stands in front of Ecuador and US flags
Rubio says US will 'blow up' foreign crime groups if needed
QUITO — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said the US will "blow up" foreign crime groups if needed, possibly in collaboration with other countries."Now they're gonna help us find these people and blow them up, if that's what it takes," Rubio said during a visit to Ecuador.He also announced the US will designate two of Ecuador's largest criminal gangs, Los Lobos and Los Choneros, as foreign terrorist organisations.The comments come days after US forces carried out a strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea. The White House says it killed 11 drug-traffickers, though it did not release their identities.Asked whether smugglers coming from US allies, like Mexico and Ecuador, could face "unilateral execution" from US forces, Rubio said...
September 05, 2025

Rubio says US will 'blow up' foreign crime groups if needed

President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro during a press conference at Hotel Melia Caracas in Caracas, Venezuela on September 1
As US tensions rise, Venezuelans keep calm and carry on – but whisper hopes of change
CHICHIRIVICHE DE LA COSTA, Venezuela — Work starts early for the fishermen of Chichiriviche de la Costa, a remote village on the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, some two hours of unpaved driving from the capital Caracas.On Thursday, Eduard Ulloa, 47, was at the shore before six in the morning, ready to prepare his boat for the day’s catch.A US strike on a Venezuelan speedboat allegedly carrying drugs that killed 11 people just a couple of days ago has created big waves in the world of geopolitics, fueling suspicions in Caracas that Washington is trying to topple the regime of President Nicolas Maduro – a man accused by the US of trafficking drugs (a charge he vehemently denies) and on whose head a $50 million bounty rests.That deadly strike, which followed the deployment of several US...
September 05, 2025

As US tensions rise, Venezuelans keep calm and carry on – but whisper hopes of change

Oil pumping units in Kazan, Russia
Trump pushes Europe to stop buying Russian oil, up pressure on China in effort to end Ukraine war
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump told a meeting of world leaders Thursday that Europe must stop purchasing Russian oil and put economic pressure on China to try to bring about an end to the war in Ukraine, a White House official told CNN, as the administration seemed to put the onus on its allies to get more involved in stopping the conflict.Trump made the comments in a Thursday call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders in a meeting of the “Coalition of the Willing,” a group of Ukrainian allies trying to end the war and provide security for Ukraine from future attacks.Following the call, French President Emmanuel Macron said that 26 countries have promised to contribute to a potential peacekeeping force if a ceasefire deal is finalized –...
September 05, 2025

Trump pushes Europe to stop buying Russian oil, up pressure on China in effort to end Ukraine war

Several men inspect the mangled metal of a crashed train carriage.
Out of control: Witnesses describe fatal Lisbon funicular crash
LISBON – It was just after 18:00 on Wednesday when a carriage on Lisbon's famous Gloria funicular careened around the bend of a steep cobblestoned street, crashed into a building, and crumpled, eyewitnesses said.The carriage "lost control", descending at full speed and crashing on its side, Helen Chow, who was at the base of the hill, told the BBC.It sounded like a bomb, she said, followed by "complete scary silence...There was pitch black smoke. Once it dissipated, you saw exactly what happened."People were frantic and crying, with others running to help, she described."It was awful," she said. "I am shaken."Police are still investigating the cause of the crash, which killed at least 17 people and injured 20 more, some critically, near...
September 04, 2025

Out of control: Witnesses describe fatal Lisbon funicular crash

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrive for a reception in the Great Hall of People, following a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing on September 3, 2025
Xi meets Kim a day after show of unity with Putin at Chinese military parade
BEIJING – Chinese leader Xi Jinping and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un have sat down for formal talks in Beijing, a day after the pair and Russia’s Vladimir Putin put on an unprecedented show of unity against the West at a massive military parade.Xi and Kim began their meeting at the Great Hall of the People on Thursday, Chinese state media reported, in their first formal sit-down in six years. The two leaders last met in Pyongyang in 2019, during Xi’s first state visit to North Korea.Xi, Putin and Kim took center stage at China’s military parade marking 80 years of the end of World War II on Wednesday.The trio – who had never appeared together in public before – formed the defiant face of an emerging bloc of illiberal leaders determined to push back against Western rules and tilt...
September 04, 2025

Xi meets Kim a day after show of unity with Putin at Chinese military parade

The explosion happened in the parking area of a stadium where a political rally had been held
Bomb blast kills 15 near political rally in Pakistan
SINGAPORE – Fifteen people were killed and more than 30 others were wounded in a suicide bombing near a political rally in Pakistan, authorities said.Hundreds of members of the Balochistan National Party (BNP) had gathered for a rally at a stadium in Quetta, the capital of restive Balochistan province, when a bomb exploded in the parking area on Tuesday night.Provincial authorities said on Wednesday that the death toll had risen to 15. The Islamic State militant group said it carried out the attack.Balochistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran, is the country's largest and poorest region. Its residents also face regular and often deadly attacks from the Islamic State and separatist groups.The suicide bomber could not reach the rally venue due to tight security, Balochistan health...
September 04, 2025

Bomb blast kills 15 near political rally in Pakistan

Boats are a common means of transport in Nigeria (file photo)
Dozens die after boat hits tree stump in Nigerian river
ABUJA – At least 32 people have died in Nigeria's northern Niger state after a boat sank in a river, an official has said.The boat was reportedly overloaded, carrying about 100 passengers including women and children, capsized when it struck a submerged tree stump on the River Niger in the Borgu area on Tuesday morning.They were on their way to a nearby village to pay their respects to the family of someone who had recently died.Abdullahi Baba Ara, the spokesman of the National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) in the state, told BBC Hausa on Thursday that more than 50 other people had been rescued, with eight still missing.Search operations are continuing.Ara said the government had set up a team of "water marshals" to stop boat operators from overloading their vessels...
September 04, 2025

Dozens die after boat hits tree stump in Nigerian river

Guyanese President Irfaan Ali claimed a second five-year term in office
Guyana President Irfaan Ali claims victory in general election
GEORGETOWN – Guyanese President Irfaan Ali has claimed a second five-year term in office, even as official final results from Monday's general election are yet to be published.Ali's People's Progressive Party (PPP) secured at least 242,000 votes in the poll, claiming majorities in eight of the 10 districts in the South American country, according to Reuters news agency.We Invest in Nationhood (WIN), a new political party founded just three months ago, came in second with around 109,000 votes.Ali, 45, campaigned on a pledge to use the country's vast oil reserves, discovered in 2019, to improve infrastructure and reduce poverty, while navigating territorial tensions with neighbour Venezuela.It is not yet clear how many seats each party will have in the 65-member parliament,...
September 04, 2025

Guyana President Irfaan Ali claims victory in general election

Nigel Farage was hosted in the Oval office during his visit by long-time ally President Donald Trump
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage urges US to oppose UK on free speech laws
WASHINGTON – Nigel Farage has urged US politicians and businesses to tell the British government "you've simply got this wrong" on freedom of speech rules, as he compared the UK to North Korea.The Reform UK leader was in Washington DC giving evidence to a US congressional committee holding a hearing into whether European laws "threaten Americans' right to speak freely in the US".Citing the cases of writer Graham Linehan and a woman who was jailed over a racist tweet, Farage spoke about what he called "the really awful authoritarian situation that the UK has sunk into".During the session he was heavily criticised by some Democratic members of Congress, including Jamie Raskin who labelled him a "Putin-loving free speech impostor".Responding...
September 04, 2025

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage urges US to oppose UK on free speech laws

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